Month: April 2024 | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, Incarnation, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, Peter Van Inwagen, predation, redemption, resurrection, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski}

Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotle, baseball, brainwashing, Brooklyn College, cancel culture, China, colors, constructivism, deconstruction, doors, Euclid, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender, George Orwell, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Stalin, knowledge, Live Not By Lies, Michel Foucault, Ontario, philosophers, Pythagoras, Queer Theory, queering, relativism, Richard Rorty, sex, teachers, transgenderism, truth, Twitter, University of Chicago, University of Haifa}

The War on 2 + 2 = 4

_{William A. Dembski
April 8, 2024

Biology, Ethics, Mathematics, Science Education

23}

The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, early Earth, Gerald Joyce, hype, intelligent agency, intelligent design, investigator intervention, James Tour, Lee Cronin, modern cells, natural processes, nucleotides, PNAS, polymerases, Probability Paradox, protocols, replication, ribozymes, Rice University, RNA, RNA world, Steven Benner, Washington Post}

Fact Check: A “Monumental” Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origin?

_{Brian Miller
April 8, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The lauding of Gerald Joyce’s research is pure hype. His results only further demonstrate the absolute necessity of intelligent agency. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological functions, Casey Luskin, Darwinian paradigm, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, functions, genome, ID the Future, information suites, John Mattick, junk DNA, Long Story Short, molecular biologists, non-protein coding regions, science}

One of Science’s Biggest Mistakes

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 8, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Prevailing scientific assumptions often die hard, especially when they fit so neatly into an evolutionary view of the development of life on Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 7, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, American Astronomical Society, Diamond Ring, earth, eclipse, eclipse glasses, Moon, sun, totality}

Safe Viewing of the April 8 Solar Eclipse

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 7, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

2}

Unfortunately, there are some unscrupulous people selling fake eclipse glasses. This may not seem like a big deal to some. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, assisted suicide, dementia, disabilities, duty to die, economics, euthanasia, illnesses, immigration, logic, morality, old age, policy}

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Come on, Granny! Time to swallow the pills. We need your money to send Junior to college. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, creationism, devolution, evolution, harmony, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Natural Theology (book), Panda's Thumb, Peter Van Inwagen, proportion, Religions (journal), St. Paul, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, symmetry, theology, thumb, William A. Dembski, William Paley, Young Earth Creationists}

Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 5, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

12}

Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, birds, Darwinian evolution, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Evolution News, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Jurassic period, Microraptor, Occam's Razor, paleontology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
April 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

9}

Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, carnivores, common ancestry, dexterity, digits, economy, efficiency, evolution, evolutionists, intelligent design, leaves, mammals, Panda's Thumb, Religions (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality}

Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Dallas, earth, English, etymology, homicide, information, inkblot, intelligence, intuition, Latin, possibilities, shmoo, Texas, The Design Inference, United States, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

The Connection Between Intelligence and Information

_{William A. Dembski
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Information is everywhere in the sciences. Yet scientists often ignore the connection of intelligence to information. Read More ›